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LTT Podcast EP #03 - The Soul, Farming Cheese and Wine.
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Let's Talk Tachlis. Episode #03 A fascinating conversation with Yanky Shechter This episode is brought to you by Aron B. Contact LTT Podcast: [email protected] Distributed by: @LatestTalks
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wine and milk are the most sensitive
liquids it's really boring that's why
these kids are not looking to be there
anymore in this system there's a high
wallace thing
everything has to be done in house one
of the biggest giants in general i
remember that tattoo whenever i ask for
more he says no you have to earn that in
this place at the end of the day you
make cheese out of it and you sell it as
a commercial product what is the
difference between the cheese that we
all see in the supermarkets a good
burger comes from a prime piece of beef
so one of them
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hi and welcome again to let's talk
tactless
we appreciate you being with us to
watch and join our beautiful program
today we have a very unique and special
guest in our studio
mr jacob
yankee
yakov
um soon you'll find out as i always tell
you why it's so unique and special to
have him here
um
so let's get going
yankee hi
hi i get to work
and i'd like to challenge my
guests and ask them why are they here
why are you here
yeah i think it's very simple he asked
me if i want to be here the answer is
probably no
but
you know
i want you a
long long long time friend i mean we're
going back to
uh i said the late 80s
correct and
you know you're
doing something new
right when
you know sometimes i do
ventures and stuff for this i get you
involved i send it to you to your
comment so i guess you uh picked me up
to
pick one of your guests to do that
i'll try my best yeah
before we go forward i want to share
with the audience a very interesting
little story ahead with yankee
two years ago hanukkah
as you know we all
do some big nice chanukah events with
our families we want to create harmony
and love and
some kind of
family so usually each family has one
night that they gather all the kids and
they make a big event
and two years ago before hanukkah i get
during chanukah i get a phone call from
yankee says
mr b
i need you tonight emergency
i said one minute is hanukkah i have my
plans i have to check my calendar check
with my wife what happened
he says do me a favor try to make it be
my house tonight after tending whenever
8 30 9 o'clock
i know usually when yankee invites me
it's it pays to go anyway
to make a long story show to make an
amazing story short
yankee and his wife have a very
beautiful custom
in the hand capari they
create a contest a cooking contest
between all the married children
and each of the couples is investing a
lot of creativity and time and
resources whatever they can to come up
with a very very unique dish
and yankee asked me and my wife to come
over to the meal and join the family
and be the judges which of the couples
which one of the which couple
should be the winner and should be
should be getting the reward let me tell
you this was a one of a kind event
to see the
the chemistry between the family
it was beautiful to see it was not a
fight it was a beautiful event everyone
was happy to see the other person's
successes and achievements
it was really really unique amazing
amazing event by the end we had to
choose unfortunately only one winner oh
we had three categories yeah we three
categories we had presentation we had
taste and we had
a freshness or something like this what
was the third it was creativity taste
and presentation all right creativity
it was a very difficult challenge
because they were all amazing
and we chose
my wife and i had our own little notes
and we wrote the details
and we happens to be we both came 90 to
the same conclusions
and when i asked yankee after the event
so what price is the couple getting
for winning
she told me something amazing he's
sponsoring for this couple a culinary
course correct
a professional course to invest
and improve their knowledge their talent
development
obviously we're dealing here with a
person who is into
bringing out the best in human beings
and
seeking the talents and making not
lemonade out of lemon but making lemon
out of lemonade
so
we're going to talk to him about a few
adventures that he's involved with
um
i'm going to start by asking you a very
simple question as you said in the
beginning
it's really you're the you are the guest
i'm talking a little too much but i'll
give you some the microphone the podium
i asked you in the beginning
as you said in the beginning that we
know each other for many years
and i really want to go back to the
beginning of time
i want to tell the audience before i ask
this question that yankee is a
entrepreneur in the field of farming
very surprising
soon you'll hear some more details but
he's he has his own
he took his own ideas and creativity and
he
put it into action
and he has a very unique farm upstate
new york in which is doing beautiful and
amazing new things
so my question to you will be what takes
a
israeli young
a boy that comes from a very
special family from israel and very
known famous shakhtar family in nebraska
a wealthy family a hazard family
and maybe you should talk a little a
word or two about your family about your
background about your father and parents
and
what
brings you to become an entrepreneur in
the farming industry
come on
um
oh i mean there was a
a question that requires i think more
than one uh
podcast yeah okay but i'll try to do
well we'll invite you for more oh thank
you i'll uh let's see how that goes then
i'll tell you if i want to continue
um
yeah it's a it's a good question and and
uh
interestingly i tell you
i'll try to make it very brief because
you know
i can put you uh 30 some years so maybe
i should say close to 40 in in
how long 45 minutes we're gonna that's
gonna be pretty boring
um if i go back to like you said at the
start what brings me uh
from
a family like this i think this is
probably
what
dragged me into it
and i'll i'll say it like that you know
we have a person we said
hashem mitza they gave
that means that
any path that you end up
going in life
or any venture that you are doing in
life
regardless what what you choose to be if
you want to be a uh you know a teacher
or a curling man or
or
or on a business or
be a professional
it's my hashem it's that they gave you
because
and they say
that comes with that too and once you
choose the path
again it's
been
paid plowed paved and and
walk along
till you reach you your destiny your
goals whatever
so
yeah like you said the family the my my
father was a
well-known ish i said i mean something
in a magnitude that is not to find today
with can i know that we have a lot of
hazard around in the street today
i mean in i would say even in
in mega sizes but
what an individual did back then by
himself
was
enormous
amount of casa the well-known and in
i remember when
i mean i was 19 years old when he passed
away there was
a long time ago
and
back then the stifle that came to
mankind was his it was
hey i think
is a
a half a year before he passed away that
yeah he was climbing up the three
stories and then came up and this and
they said be sure my friend we wanted to
go downstairs you know
a good like this is a hard time to climb
up the steps and i said
no no no no nobody should
he comes to me
into the
house where where it all
all wars and all happened and
it
moves
it took him about half an hour to climb
up these three stories with resting like
you know in the
in the steps a little bit today
finally he made it it took him to time
to take his breath
and
he didn't say a lot but he said this is
the the that
rock
was
going in hassan he extended even that
they said
of the schwageroth
so let's explain it to the audience
they wrote on his life they wrote one
one biography if they bought one book i
said for this for a bit you can write
eight
books and it's not gonna be power he's
not sure if they can put everything in
it he said they joined us that he hadn't
casted and said and he said this this
way this is what i know i said that you
can imagine that other people know more
than that so sure that that was um
right
now you asked me how this is coming into
farming and
business and that
so
i would say first of all it's not
yeah i mean if somebody owns a farm you
call it farming but it's not really
it's not it's not really farming
soon
and
okay and and
but it's uh
and you asked me how i got to it
this
is
i own the business
it happened to be that i had an
electrical supply
um back in
2008 to 13 whatever
i was afraid i remember it like today
was a friday
pretty much
like after hotzois i would say
a boy walks in
like he said a real you know how
they say it in in
in english
obviously there's a yiddish boy that has
all kind of tattoos you cannot recognize
that he is uh
nothing but he has some kind of a
edelkite in in his talk
and what do you want so he's asking me
for a few things he happened to be i
remember it like today he wanted to make
for his mother uh air conditioned line
because it was somewhere was that that
oh i love my mother and this and that
and
somehow when he's and i helped him out
and somehow when he slipped out from his
mouth
that i got to do it before shabbos
because i said wow then okay it means
that my wife is sitting over there in
the booth like um she's watching that
you know she runs the computers and then
she's looking at that and it's okay so i
picked him up and listened and he left
him and that i remembered that tattoo
that tattoo was
familiar to me then i found out that you
know i'm you know remember me that i'm a
builder already for 30 some of 34 years
he was working for a demo company that
did for me once
all right when he walked in you saw the
tattoo looks familiar i did i could
remember the tattoo because usually when
i see something i remember it and i
remember that tattoo and i could not
figure out where do i know these the two
from and you know tattoos could be
whatever let's not spend that tattoo
is a yiddish boy with tattoo like this i
mean if if i go on the street i mean i
won't
even think twice unless he here like you
said he opened his it slipped up with
his mouth
and um
so he leaves he paid he leaves out my
wife is coming out there's like a little
a few steps she literally collapsed out
from the steps
and she told me yankee what is it
like i said what
said did you just see this boy i said
how come i i mean this is it's a real
nice jewish kid
he's so sweet and so anal and he's so
devoted he loves his mother
what is he coming in to to be like that
well you know this is the matias you
know it's a that that's unfortunate
unfortunately we have it on the street
it takes a few days by i was very nice
to them those kids are having a click a
club that i found out later a little bit
and there's a few of them like starting
to come ask for things and these are
these very nice people they give you a
nice order they talk to you nice they
accept you that's basically what these
boys are uh uh missing lacking yeah
and my wife was talking to them and this
and they used to come and start hanging
out you know i used to give them some
call will buy some
what do you call it um
this fish with a sushi
i bought them sushi they always got they
could get a free soda with it and you
know you
you know give them a warm heart and you
know so so i start like having other
one day my wife said why don't you do
something for them
and i start breaking my head i mean
what can you do for them and then i came
to a conclusion said
why should i
go to that stage i mean maybe we can
stop it before
and how we do that
i came up with a crazy idea i i you know
i approached you back then there was a
long time is that and i said you looked
at me and said every time my ideas is
kind of a little weird and crazy and yes
but
i'm not but i didn't change my opinion
yet on this yeah right but sometimes
they a little like you know they pretty
much
yeah they premature for the for the for
the timing
and i said yeah i got the idea i'm going
to open up for them a farm a shiva on a
farm it's every child that is
you know and you know not every kid is
really feeling in a neigh shiva but he's
not a special ed kid or anything it's
just it's like he's not suitable for
that big deal
so i came up with i developed a plan
with a vocational system you know
anything that from from blue-collar
trades to computer high-tech and
anything and i had all the support and
then and i started to look for and i ran
this idea by a few dollars and
serious
guys i mean
i would mention the kosovo rabbit
show
i went to rabbi bender
they all gave me like the real
little push go ahead so i i spent the
fortune of money and time
to do that and obviously you going to
farms and look and locate the other side
i want to interrupt your minute
yeah okay
kelly seoul just lost like about 10 days
ago two weeks ago
one of the biggest giants in generic in
in understanding the nephesh and the and
the hearts of these kind of kids are by
the high wallace in
and he
maybe 30 years after you or 25 years
after you
came up with the same idea
and he was busy for a few years as many
people know
looking and looking and looking till he
found the farm
which had a lot of benefits he has a
long story of that how it was shared for
him
but the bottom line was that he gave his
life in nephesh his heart and soul for
this exact purpose
to
educate and help
and
occupy
boys in his case girls
to
overcome the social
problems and social guards
and open up and build a certain level of
responsibility of a certain level of
devotion
and a certain level of
interest in life in
time management in steadiness in
in responsibility
and obviously this was one of the most
amazing things that he
was proud of and nobody is going to say
that
the high wallace thing was a a horse
dealer
everybody will say
in shamam in himmel everyone will say he
was a dealer of nicholas
so i really wanted i think the timing is
amazing that you're telling us the story
because it's really a unique way a deep
way of a long-distance way of thinking
of how we can help you this and the show
is amazing
so
yeah
he was uh very into it i mean we have
one we did it at the same time you know
parallel but
i tell you what it's a it's a
mega undertake to do these things like i
said i went i looked at farm sites and
these i actually bought two farms
they were pretty large you know 127
acres another one was 160 acre
and um
and trying to this then i realized what
kind of money i'm into it and and
and uh
and i study i study
this whole
business i mean what they're gonna do
over there how can you occupy you're
looking
my choice to to do a farm a you out in
the
it's not the wilderness it's it's you
you're out there you
you have to overcome challenges that
supplies a lot of work
and a lot of time the main thing is is
is occupational therapy over here you
know the these are young souls the soul
is by nature looking for something you
know for some kind some kind of address
some kind of uh satisfaction or
something like that
and that can bring a lot of satisfaction
satisfactory into the to the person a
by okay you have to
let's say you have to cut the field you
start cutting the field and you're
making like lines you know sometimes you
see people cut the grass they said i cut
the diamond shape you see they go
crisscross and they it's it's really
nice how it is it gives you some kind of
i can keep up with he's proud of him
driving this this this lawn mower and
and do that the other one is like
uh you have to build a nice pen a nice
uh
a little barn you have to there's a lot
of things that demand time
challenge
mental uh uh emotion you have to be the
wrong yeah it's a mental challenge
something you don't start you have to
finish you have to calculate you know
put up a list together there's a lot of
things that there's a lot of areas that
you develop it's not like just a school
system okay you come the program is
written from from beginning to the end
and then you have to follow the path
it's really boring that's why these kids
are not looking to be there anymore in
the system so they need this separate
company this is a challenging system and
you know how they said farmers they
never go to sleep they never wake up and
they say so it keeps you busy besides
that when it comes to the vocational
school that comes with
a school that okay you have to devote a
few hours for to finish up
your high school this getting uh
education
credits credits and and being
and
and acquiring a skill also that can make
you a a nice provider for family
and uh and that makes you a mention also
you know it puts you into a uh
you understand that i mean that it was
so unique that
i explained it to you once back then and
you looked at me like um something is is
his thing
he said yeah he said and let me tell you
something i spoke to a
big people in in in
in israel when i visited there
the whole thing and and he's giving me a
a good um
it's not i didn't get a boa i got a lot
a lot longer than just a bar
and and and
they were the uniqueness was that they
they boys they run themselves
the
the shiva the cooking the the the baking
the cooking and everything has to be
done in house so one of them will become
a good caterer the other one who got a
party planner you know every night you
have to put up a dinner and at dinner is
not you're not throwing a few plastic
plates on the table i mean this is real
dishes like you saw in my house that we
did this competition well every one of
my kids knows that because it's i mean
it's it's kind of me a little bit so
that's what i wanted to give over the
kids if you put already a meal right
make it already tasty if it's already
tasty make it already look nice make it
appetizing you know and there's a use
some nice dishes set them up nice you
know make an environment
and let them do that each one of them
will grow up to be uh
i find the bala boost you know something
a fine schmecker basil it's not it's not
a hiso
yeah and and and you can take something
that you would maybe call in the
kinderfield like this is the trash of
the this
this is going to be you know when i say
one man's trash is the other man's goal
that's going to be really
the gold fruit of of something like that
it takes an enormous amount of money to
put something like that and i realized
that
instead of being busy with that i'll be
busy with fundraising this is something
that i'm you know from all my talents
that you know me
this is i don't have it you know i
already i agree with myself
you don't want to be this is not me and
and okay and i let it go but
the bug
you know they said the virus
was already in me because when i learned
that
i learned another unique thing is
i studied that to the depth i said these
two models how to set up an institution
like this
basically it was developed by two giants
one is america lublin
which put the first
he basically laid the
foundations
how yeshivas are running in the in the
in the you know in the 20th century
right i mean you have a building you
have a administration you provide for
the military you know the whole that was
his
side then the second to him was the
ponyville
now the difference between these two
people is like this ramayana shapira
spent the rest of his life it wasn't too
long and he really ended up short
running
and collecting a dollar to a dollar to a
dollar to adal he spent away from home
once he opened up that she was very
little time in that the ponyville also
spent his life in america
but he built up
a financial engine to keep the fever so
he shouldn't have to do it all the
generations after him because he's
always the successor the fourth the
successor is not
always capable as the founder or
whatever
vice versa right
so he had he took a different model and
i realized that the model of the pony
which will probably keep you alive a
little longer
and more sustainable
and i was looking for a financial engine
what to do so i figured you know i
studied that part too and i realized
that you know cheese
wine is a little issue because you're
dealing with youngsters you can't do
that because it's you know it collides
with the laws but cheese is something
that could be done over there and that
could be a really
uh nice financial engine to keep the
thing so if you have milk we have goats
they gotta get up they gotta do this
there's a lot of work involved and at
the end of the days at the end of the
day you make cheese out of it and you
sell it as a commercial product like
anywhere else
keeps you the reward that that covers
the gap that you don't have to go to
collect i mean the money comes you just
have to put it online and and the money
comes into the you know how they said
that that's interesting the cards are uh
so obviously
okay go no continue continue
uh well but like i said it did not
mature to to come with this because you
know the seed money is uh is a fortune
and
so okay you know i tried i did my best
like i said i said my
my like my wife asked i said what can
you do for that
i tried i really tried hard
it didn't work but
the knowledge was already there and like
i said the virus and the bug didn't
leave me alone
and
i was i said you know what
like i said i like to venture things
and as being a builder i mean when i
moved a lot of my building ventures
through upstate new york but i just like
i said my hashem it said they gave her i
just happened to have that people ask me
to go out there and to do it for them
and i went and i used to live on a i
mean i got a good deal in
the most decent hotel that was there at
that time a lot of i spent a lot of time
over there and still looking for the you
know the bug of the farm i said one day
this because i fell in love in love with
this when these things and and i studied
it i also went like to cornell
university and i i i yeah i study
already
yeah because once i start taking the
licensing and look what into it and then
how did this thing work you know i like
to know that you know how does the
mechanism work what's what's in it is
there's a lot in it and a lot laws
regulations and i said okay i'll go
and uh then i then i i did over there
but there's i studied dairy science and
then i study also
raising cattle and stuff and that which
is on the way
from farming
yeah because so i i
i got already the knowledge and and i
really loved it and the truth the truth
is like this you know that i'm a
winemaker already
for more than a decade
and i learned i i was self-taught and
and thank god you know my my
you know my wines yeah you know you know
you're tasting them and by the way when
i when i came out of this beautiful
chanukah party
i was rewarded with a very very
two bottles of very very delicious
wines which i never
whenever i asked for more he says no you
have to earn that in this place you just
you just you don't just get it you have
to do something for it
and i appreciate it because i believe in
working hard and deserving things not
just
freebies in life
makes us better people i
i'm a cheese lover too i love cheese and
i know it's
i okay i don't want to start you know
you know i don't want to start with
these cheese distributors because they
they're quite powerful but
i said it wasn't what i'm looking for
you know it's let's yeah so let's give
the audience a quick a quick um pause
over here
and
discuss in short
what is the difference between the
cheese that we all see in the
supermarkets the groceries we take off
on the shelf and we take home
versus the cheeses
that mr schechter is talking about that
you're talking about
they take a lot of knowledge and science
and know-how
and is destined for unique markets and
people who really have a
deeper flavor for life of a food that's
one question the next question will be
also in very short um words
in the process of wine making like what
is the difference between a 30 dollar
wine bottle and a hundred and i'm not
going to talk about two thousand dollar
wine bottle
like what goes in to making a real real
good bottle of wine so it's two two
questions both are up your alley
in short because we are in constraint of
time
uh i'll tell you what they said the the
is uh
there is a book
there is a book in a very famous book in
america the guy that saved chrysler
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one of these
chapters that he writes in the book he
said he used to work for ford
she said emily ford took him down to the
kitchen into the kitchen and in the
headquarters they had a massive
commercial kitchen over there he took
him in to the kitchen down
and he went into the meat locker he
opened up the thing he took like a big
prime steak
a piece of beef
they took him and
he threw it in the meat grinder
got the meat out of the grinder
and went with him to the grill and put
it up and made like a delicious burger
he gave him to eat and yes and what if i
i don't know if i'm quoting him exactly
but the idea was there
and the bottom line is that the moral of
the story was that
a good burger
comes from a prime piece of beef
you can't take
the
you know what you throw out or the other
left yeah the the the the lesser grade
the lower grade stuff and try to make a
good thing out of it it said that you
have to understand this is a rule of
life
when you want to have a superb
product
you have to start
with a good prime
raw material
that was his message that he wanted to
deliver and then wine and cheese starts
in the same thing
the grapes have to be grown
you know to perfection
they have to be a good
hurdle of of grapes they have to be good
grapes
they have to be grown to all the
perimeters to finish up by the time of
the harvest the harvest is a timing
you got to get the chemistry boundaries
you know talking about sugar i said you
know 3h the whole nine yard what's
involved i mean i'm not going to give a
wine course over here but
this and
then the harvesting the process of the
harvesting is the
the speed that it comes in to crush
the fermentation the
it's a whole process that you have to
you have to analyze every step of the
way has to be analyzed like you know you
take a few grapes you
take a drops there's a
there's a special
tool that checks the sugar
you check acidity when you hit the
perimeters you check how this is the
barometer what is the temperature what
is that the perfect harvesting
of a perfect product
is a good start from there
again the labs are monitoring every step
of the way
how dilute not that they would bump up
this level down this you know to keep
the perimeter and as far as you go
in the process of crushing fermenting uh
soaking it it's the whole uh we're not
going to make this it's a long process
how you do it
and if you do it right and you monitor
what you're doing and then it comes into
how to tank it and burl it and and then
monitor it in in the in the cellar
you're going to end up with a good
product so obviously you said you know
when you get when you do all these
things these things are
the
product of grape
this has a higher cost because it comes
in you believe it or not sometimes in
the crops in order to deliver these
things
you have to go there with scissors and
cut off leaves
because if you have too much nitrogen on
the ground it'll grow too much green if
it goes too much green it covers the
grapes if the grapes are covered they
don't see sun if they don't see sun they
don't deliver the amount of sugar that
you want then you have issues with how
to bring the alcohol or you have to wait
longer for that to be sweet but
meanwhile you're losing on the tataric
acid they're starting to decline
i'm getting all these words it's a whole
it's a whole some sense the growing
process
sometimes also when you want to extract
flavor from the ground what it is
you believe it or not you can go and
they trim
up to 50 of the crops you have real good
grapes
they're not
ripe yet to to be done but they
cut them off the tree
and let's say if they uh parcel will
give them let's say five ton they'll
only come two and a half ton out of it
to make the to make the other part
better and a superb
a product to start more exposure to the
oxygen yes so that that these things
this pampering of of growing is is
matters it matters yeah and and at the
end you get paid by the tonnage so the
price of the tonnage is this but you
know two and a half ton will give you
only a half of the liquid that it gives
you at five pounds so that that that
effect is in the cost
cheese
now cheese is a different story but
again
you need a superb
number one you need a superb product a
milk milk has is called a somatic cell
you're allowed to have in cow's milk up
to 750 000
somatic cells per you know that's uh
that the measurements and this that goes
that's the boundary industry boundaries
that you're allowed to have in goats and
sheep that comes to 1.5 1.5 million
but
the less
cell somatic cells that you have in the
middle the milk is cleaner the more like
the more the more the is clean is like
you know it says crystal
clear from this like uh uh the the
better the milk is
the fresher the milk is
that's a good start
after that comes the culture comes the
knowledge of the
it's timing
it's been done and you know the
acidification and
coagulation and and and how it's been
deeped and how the how it's been washed
of course it has to do with them i'm
dealing with yellow hard cheeses you
know so those aged cheeses those as a
different process than regular kimchis
and and and and the goats pouches that
you buy those those are those are grade
a
uh so yeah the process and
good cultures good practice
cleanliness sanitation
i mean milk is something that can
interestingly wine
and milk are the most sensitive liquids
in the food business wow
the only differential between the
difference between them is the wine will
not kill you if it goes bad but milk can
really put somebody down under the
ground
it's serious it's serious so obviously
you have a magnet to to
sensitive
and delicate um
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materials that hashem
made in this world you have a
it started with the boys he had the
sensitivity for the boys
and for the well-being and for the
happiness
and if if i can
compile it together i think it's
you're sending a very deep message that
you're not this common
type of person that takes things let
them pass no you pick up on the
sensitivities and on the delicate and
fine materials of this world
humans and
in nature
and you
try very hard and you're not saving any
effort
to bring out the best in people and in
in god's nature
and to make the world a more supreme and
fine place
interesting
combination
you know you're saying something but i
think yeah there's a lot in common in
this because
what you have to be is very you have to
know what you're doing
you have to be very
meticulous and yes
kids
i mean children are just as
a sensitive
uh
a sensitive thing of living living you
know they're all living creatures that
they say the wine is a living creature
they all have we all have the enzymes we
all have the bacterias we all have viola
we all are in the same thing and and
yeah we all we are all very very
sensitive and could be spoiled
with uh just like
you know a little too much cooking
with anything anything can go wrong at
any time but like i said
a clean line uh
maintaining a higher sanitary level and
in the human also that means that the
kid goes in a nice clean environment
when i'm talking about physically and
and
like
yeah that
everything
you try to do that everything should go
flawless and if there is a
minor
you know deviation yeah that you can
it's under control and you can you can
continue monitor it yeah you can fix it
and then you keep it on course because
once it goes off course it's
it's either it's completely spoiled or
you know it won't be a prime anymore
it's it's it's a it has a lot in common
in it and did you think about that
before you came here uh
i tell you what i didn't think about it
i just leave it you know and i leave it
too it's not it's not something that you
know i mean yeah you heard the first
part of the conversation you understand
that uh
i do what i understood and i tell you
what this
part of this thing that you asked me why
did you picked up a farm and this and
that i knew all that i said oh we did
there is no
there's not too much margin of error
over there so this is like i said they
said one mistake and something goes
wrong you know what you do milk goes bad
you spill it that's it it's in the down
the drain
with kids it's uh we have to wear these
there i think
i think this this particular should be
watched by many in mexico
and by many parents
okay it's fine
no but it's a it's an amazing deep
message for all of us to know and
understand and live
that our kids and our generations are
very
prime like you start with the prime
piece of meat prime
human beings that
need constant care i mean a kid gets
born i mean what could be more
pure and holy than
a newborn child i mean regardless who it
is you know how they said grace or color
or anything i mean there's nothing more
beautiful at that moment that a new
child has been born and coming into the
world
and
if you keep that path like you know and
with the same like that moment
devotion
and dedication you you uh you know
i said
you want to pay like you know they said
they can't guarantee but you are really
on a good path to success
that that that's for sure
and a lot of ahmed
yeah like i said you know you have to
like i said yeah let me tell you
something you know they said that the
prayer of the farmer like you know is
that one of the things is i heard it
from showers that what is unique about
farmers is they said
because when you plow fields and and
you they say you've been by me you
visited my my place over there and you
saw that
we're putting the new facility maybe if
we have time we're going to touch that
that
a very eventually
a new thing that i put in
uh
you put all these things in and you you
know you turn over the ground you spend
that kind of uh
effort and money work and this and you
you plow and you plant and you you do
some when when things are coming out
and then you pray for rain and the rain
comes it comes and the nation is nation
you know and sometimes the rain comes
but it's too much rain or sometimes the
rain comes and
we just planted you know the whole place
by my new products and this i planted
new grasses and everything before pesach
and we were sure nice you know it's
already it's not freezing and this it
came this yonte the second day
boom the everything got covered with
nine inches of snow everything went
kaput you know the the
it's we have to we had to do everything
you saw that they did everything
and hopefully now that this thing is
coming and i showed you that you see
these areas you see we went up the hill
over there i showed you the grasses are
big
because those are established and the
new ones
need we have to get them out of the
ground so yeah it's like it's a lot of
effort that you put in that you don't
see in the beginning but
eventually
you dove into hashem
and it comes like i told you you said
the other day this my wife called me up
and i said what are you doing now he
said now i'm being a brass lover i said
what do you mean
what do you mean i said i'm just going
in the forest now in the new place that
i just finished to do that and i said
thank you asham
i started saying
one on one
one on one yeah he said he said i'm told
i'm talking and said no i'm not talking
to myself i'm talking to hashem and he
said i i i
have to say 10 times nishmasi you know
like like
it said
imagine imagining the last said i'm
ecstatic because like i got the three
cups of wine and then i'm saying it they
said that you for real i said yeah yeah
i said you don't understand what's going
on and i showed you what the seat is so
imagine if if parents would would would
say three times in ishmael
and down for each child every day with
so much
heart and soul like a farm with those
like you do
anyway it's a big last yes it's very
interesting i want to share with the
audience that i visited uh mr shekhter's
farm upstate
and he's making
amazing amazing interesting place
to
entertain
and
have a lot of is expected i'm sure
thousands of campers upstate new york
with ponies and rides and is bringing in
a very very new unique
amazing
miniatures
pony miniatures right for kids which and
i saw advertiser this year you also have
therapeutic yeah we're building a
therapeutic facility um
with animals well i i i tell you what if
if i may i mean please you want to see
all yours you said no no it's all yours
i was only so i told you
besides what we're doing over there the
thing i started yeah i told you about
the experiment that i did with the with
the meat
that i raised i raised away the kettle i
sent you the pictures of the bahamas
that we did
i i there's a few things that that
i do some ventures over there just to
explore certain way like you know that
we have the casuals with the bahamas
that if if we can raise them in
different ways
that uh
that will deliver much much kosher and
bok hashem we had a nice
a nice success we started i started a
new idea over there with its therapy
with horses like equestrian
therapy
and i chose to go with miniature horses
the goal is that we want to implement
it should be more and more
widely used
uh
horse therapy for the kids like it's
it's what you know first you can have
fun with that so when we have the fun i
mean that when i bought that place
the i have a full-size padding zoo over
there which you saw which we really
built new now
and uh you know it's a more new and
modern facility and it's not really very
very impressive
and
besides that i
so that will be
served as
animal
therapy so you do
some kids bond with sheep goats you saw
the mini donkey over there that we have
is a bunch which is
it is a very new concept
for the yiddish hamish world i have a
strong feeling that after this summer
when it's hashem and hundreds and maybe
thousands of kids will i i mean it's
gonna let me tell you it's gonna help
so many kids to
what do you want more than that you saw
that i have this book room that they
come over here that i do now this this
this new pilot with this boys that they
came in
i'll tell you a story about it you won't
believe i just told my wife shabbos
when i the voices started to come they
were already coming in the winter at
least and um
yeah you know we could go to shiva after
that you know as man as this man and and
at least in that 30s
i took them together and i said okay
guys listen to me learning is the most
important thing for me if you're missing
a say they're all missing a day
somebody's single darwining i'm
listening at this
i don't need you over here i don't want
you over here right the goal over here
is like this when you have a free time
and you can have go come and have fun
you know
fulfill yourself with everything else
you have
you see they're building with me some
buns they do some work they take care of
the horses i realized that they
they start taking the brushes and i told
them how to
you know i gave him a few lectures with
simon's electric no i gave him a few
lectures like with with the horses like
you know some
they don't need therapy but i showed
them how these things go and how to
handle them
and i see they come in first thing they
run to the horses they you know they
take care of them yeah they take care of
them
some of them were afraid like you know
shivering coming in and i got them into
the cage you know to the pen
and then i got them bonded with the
whole and now they so bonded to the
horses they come the horses already come
to them they know them they they mingle
together it's unbelievable they take
care of they finish with that and they
go they they help with the same
this week
they came up the few boys they stood in
front of me okay
this is the cut off time we decided that
we're not staying here until the last
minute and we'll be late
we'll be here we're quitting 15 minutes
before we figure this five minutes for
the ride and we have five minutes in the
yeshiva to be to be in the cider on time
you know it didn't take long it says
it's just two and a half three weeks
i said wow i told my wife i said these
boys already straightened up they gave
me they wanted to reward me for what am
i doing for them you know i took them on
the police i took them a tour in the
woods and that they're really having
nice kosher fun
but they gave me a reward they came to
surprise me
that they said
yeah we'll be on time this is quit time
i was so happy touched and this and then
i think you know i constantly looking at
the clock like this and you know that
the shalom you know they shouldn't be
this is a voice okay time is up
hey they quit everything they see no
they set up the tools whatever okay
we're going and you know i got him into
the car and i took him back it was a
nice reward and i see that it really
works and like i said i'm looking
forward to
implement this new
host therapy business into the community
and i think that
people will have uh uh uh i mean the
kids eye opener will have so much reward
from from having it i mean look it works
all over the world they use it for
autistic kids they use it for
kids that they're afraid of of you know
they have uh they're afraid to
communicate
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engage self
self-esteem
encouragement you know you have to they
take so much accountability take away
the fears but we have to constantly
highlight and remind everyone again that
from the outside the world looks like a
very
systematic place where everything
goes on the track
and boys do what they have to and girls
that would have to and people do what
they have to accomplish what they have
to but unfortunately the people in the
field are familiar with very very many
challenges in cases by the thousands of
the people that need a lot of help and
we're very happy here and let's talk to
us
to bring
a fresh look and a fresh taste
of an approach
to life
um obviously is working in many places
around the world and hopefully and for
sure
some and
slowly
more and more people will benefit from
this amazing
yeah that look training you don't have
to be locked in some kind of a facility
or something like you know
to dome somewhere outstate or or this i
mean we're doing the to be doing we're
starting up over there
and hopefully we'll spread it very hard
very far because it's uh it's uh
i mean
i we tried it on on on kids i see it
with other you know every time
that that
that you can address you know people
and i can i can assure the the viewers
and the visitors that
nothing over there was done
just just because everything has like a
lot of your dishes
it's not a bigger market all right a lot
of research a lot of um
a lot of
research and a lot of investment and
everything is done with das toile
and everything goes to the door limb of
the door
that gives give input and give guidance
and steer yankee
to do things the right way
and yes some people have the courage to
be a little different to be a little
unique
and go out of the box in order to bring
people back into the box that's an
interesting um
scenario
yeah take it yeah be amen take a
compliment yeah
look i i
maybe in our community is
unique but if you look at it in the
world you know we
we we like to be worldly
with everything else that we have we
update uh you know with technology we
opted to be able to be a careful way
yeah of course
i mean
we do it in our own way like you know
you see
we talked before about food and and
good food and culinary food and 30 40
years ago you couldn't get a decent
bottle of wine now now this can i know
there's a shelf that's buying these
scotch these these bourbons this you
name it
yeah and a lot of users too a lot of
users also but
there could be help with our horses but
now it's going to be a mess hashem the
cheese is going to you know raise the
bar and and you know give to the amazing
you know can i know it'll be every good
meets at this year well you know
wherever you have those kosher magazines
and stuff and so this is
the ease of demand for good stuff and
becoming more and more worldly so i say
why not i mean every the whole world is
getting therapy with horses why we are
studying you know why we are standing
behind as long as we do it with yeah
being careful
i'm sure it's going to be very
successful
and
it's going to be advertised and everyone
will have a chance to to visit and to
benefit from experiments
you don't have to come for therapy you
can come on you can come for fun too i
mean for fun and it's open for you know
it's open for yeah all kinds of arenas
you know you can ride with them in you
can ride the minutes you can drive with
the mini you can do this
whatever you need
and you you know you can race on a track
you can ride on an arena it's a crazy
jump you can go really and slowly the
location is really
in the heart
convenient and everyone has access
beautiful just before we conclude um i
always like to tell to these people if i
would give you now a microphone with two
hundred thousand um
audience of two hundred thousand eden
with sixty seconds
what would you wanna tell them
come on go for it
i don't know
okay let let's do like this i
believe
and there's more than believe i
looked after it for a while and i
explored it
every single one of us
any human kind
has
he was born
with a talent
in other words
he has a features his face his body
built whatever but in himself
he has
the wisdom and he has besides wisdom he
has a talent
everyone
you explore that
explore the talent that
you have
develop it
with the right way like you say in a
professional way go if you go and you
might as well like i said always you
have you know these are eight hours of
work in a day you might as well use it
to the best just don't smear the hours
just you know use it to the best do the
max max yourself out as i said if you
discover what your talents are
your heart is going to be there
set a goal
and go for it
take it serious
you'll be there you'll make it
it's in every single one of us there's
no such thing that somebody doesn't have
it the same as a god created you with
the nose and ears and eyes
and everything else some people think
that they're not perfect or they're not
this but they have it to the big of
course some people have a bigger talent
some things are so small but it's there
find it find it
go for it
develop it
perfect it
you'll make it
wow
beautiful that's exactly what i
when we started with let's talk tactless
we said we want to take
the order the so-called ordinary people
and bring out in them the extraordinary
and this i think was a beautiful
way to conclude a beautiful interview
thank you very much
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you